Voice Recignition

I have a client that is a fresh parapalegic. (spelling?)
She wants a PC system thats voice recignition. Any Ideas on some good software?

 

Hi ssmith10pn!

I have not tested this or had any reason to, thankfully, but I would recommend staying with something tailored for XP and supported by MicroSoft. Take a look and see what you think of this.

Best regards

 

And here's a report on Simply Speaking, I see it is well stocked and sold at the local Fry's Electronics. Report It's an I.B.M. product as you will learn so it should be pretty well cutting edge.

 

And here's another link with possibly helpful info. This voice recognition technology is still stumbling along at a snail's pace and it's pretty disappointing to see that there isn't much in the way of a breakthrough in the offing. I think it will take some celebrity in need to get the ball rolling.

I'm sorry I can't offer something better but perhaps someone else will chime in that has personal experience setting this up.

Regards

 

I once heard about a quadrupalegic woman who had this thing she could wear on the roof of her mouth that had buttons she could push with her tongue to control her computer. But I don't know where you could get one. Anyone else see this on the news a while back?

 

Hi shadowhawk!

Now there's an idea. I didn't see anything about that but but I'll do some looking.

That's a good idea. I suppose it would be done with pneumatic switches don't you? I can imagine some tiny tubes running to small pressure sensitive switches that would operate by pressing the tongue against a sort of air filled pad that was supported in the mouth like a dental appliance (bridge). Perfectly safe unless you swallowed it. Now you wouldn't be able to put an entire keyboard in your mouth but I think you could manage with just a few basic items.

The people with disabilities this are often the ones that can come up with the good stuff since they recognize exactly what's needed. The motivation isn't a problem when you have the need.

We could extend that concept to adding eyelid motion sensors to take the place of mouse keys I suppose. Right wink, left wink. hmm..

I'd like to help this person that ssmith10pn is dealing with so I'll have to do some more searching. I don't know where to begin except good old Google. I'm sure some ADA advocacy group may have something to offer.

Thanks for your input